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Independent at Whose Cost?

Even Self-Supporting Twentysomethings
May Need to Turn to Parents for Money

By

Adelle Waldman Special to The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated Nov. 10, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

Borrowing money from parents is the last thing many independent twentysomethings want to do.

Christa Rock, 29 years old, supported herself before attending law school at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is now a second-year student. But now she is finding it tough to stretch her student-loan money through the end of the semester.

Ms. Rock is reluctant to go to her parents to borrow money for day-to-day living...